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Recently I needed to watch the size of a file I was downloading and see how the size was increasing. I came across the command watch on unix. According to manpage of watch:

watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

Sample Usage:

watch -n 5 "du -h <file name>"

Sample Output: (fullscreen)

Every 5.0s: du -h ./<file name>                                                         Wed Feb 15 20:36:48 2017

2.5G    ./<file name>
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